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Physicist Ashoke Sen on $3M prize, string theory breakthrough, and a simple life

"When I was growing up, there were local heroes like Satyendra Nath Bose and Meghnad Saha who everyone in Kolkata knew," Professor Ashoke Sen recalls. Today, the 69-year-old is one of India's most ...
RealClearScience

Scientists Are Trying New Ways to Verify String Theory

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called “Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?” Hawking, who later became my ...
Quanta Magazine

Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?

Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the ...
The Conversation

String theory: scientists are trying new ways to verify the idea that could unite all of physics

Marika Taylor currently receives funding from EPSRC, STFC, UK government deparments and the European Horizon programme. In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the ...